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"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a homage to Racine's strength of construction . . . and to the expressive power of his themes, on which Mr. Dillon's prefaces have eloquent and sensible things to say."—Hugh Kenner, National Review
"His literal and flexible blank verse actually forms the nearest thing in English to the longer-measured rhymed couplets of Racine; even an ordinary reading aloud of so faithful a rendering provides something of the experience that Proust described."—Elliott Coleman, Poetry
"A superb introduction . . . flawless translations, infused with poetic fire and charm."—Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
"His literal and flexible blank verse actually forms the nearest thing in English to the longer-measured rhymed couplets of Racine; even an ordinary reading aloud of so faithful a rendering provides something of the experience that Proust described."—Elliott Coleman, Poetry
"A superb introduction . . . flawless translations, infused with poetic fire and charm."—Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
About the Author
George Dillon (1906-1968) was the editor of Poetry and author of two collections of poems, Boy in the Wind and The Flowering Stone. In 1931 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dillon was co-translator, with Edna St. Vincent Millay, of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.
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This play, the third of Racine's tragedies, was first given before the court at Versailles, in the Queen's apartments, November 17, 1667; it opened the next day in Paris, in the venerable Bourgogne palace, where the company of factors had their theater. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Enter Nero, Enter Orestes, Enter Phaedra, Exit Burrus, Narcissus Sir, Exit Orestes, Hippolytus Madam, Hippolytus Phaedra, Junia Sir, Andromache Alas, Burrus Sir, Enter Burrus, Enter Oenone, Enter Theramenes, Exit Nero, Pyrrhus Madam New!
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This play, the third of Racine's tragedies, was first given before the court at Versailles, in the Queen's apartments, November 17, 1667; it opened the next day in Paris, in the venerable Bourgogne palace, where the company of factors had their theater. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Enter Nero, Enter Orestes, Enter Phaedra, Exit Burrus, Narcissus Sir, Exit Orestes, Hippolytus Madam, Hippolytus Phaedra, Junia Sir, Andromache Alas, Burrus Sir, Enter Burrus, Enter Oenone, Enter Theramenes, Exit Nero, Pyrrhus Madam New!
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- Les Plaideurs by Jean Racine on page 61, and Back Matter
- Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, & Athaliah (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (English and French Edition) by Jean Racine in Front Matter
- Sarah Bernhardt by George Arthur in Front Matter
- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance) by Nicholas Rudall on page 2
- Trojan Women (Masters of Latin Literature) by Seneca on page 2
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